Chilcotin people
Also known as Tsilhqot'in
thumb|Tsilhqotin chiefs pose with new highway signage displaying Tsilhqotin community names
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- TsilhqotinChilcotin
- Ethnic group.image
- Chilcotin horse.jpg
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Tsilhqotin man on horse (1901)
- Ethnic group.population
- 4,100 (2008)
- Ethnic group.popplace
- Canada (British Columbia)
- Ethnic group.langs
- English, Tsilhqotin
- Ethnic group.rels
- Christianity, Animism
- Ethnic group.related
- Other Dene peoplesEspecially Dakelh, Wetʼsuwetʼen, and Babine
- Ethnonym.root
- Tŝilhqóx / Nen"Ochre River"/"Land"
- Ethnonym.people
- Nenqayni (Tŝilhqotʼin)
- Ethnonym.language
- Nenqayni Ch'ih (Tŝilhqotʼin Chʼih)
- Ethnonym.country
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Article
15 sectionsContents
- History
- Pre-contact
- European trade
- Disease
- Gold rush and European settlement
- Reserves
- Environmental problems
- Canadian government set to reallocate land back to natives
- Catholic missionaries and residential schools
- Disenfranchisement
- First Nations communities
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|Tsilhqotin chiefs pose with new highway signage displaying Tsilhqotin community names
The Tsilhqotin or Chilcotin ("People of the river", ; also spelled Tsilhqutin, Tŝinlhqotin, Chilkhodin, Tsilkótin, Tsilkotin) are a North American tribal government of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group that live in what is now known as British Columbia, Canada. They are the most southern of the Athabaskan-speaking Indigenous peoples in British Columbia.